Art
Paintings That Trick the Eye
Ryan Mrozowski has double vision.
Reviews
Art
The Historic Painted Panels That Exposed the Hell of Hiroshima
After the atomic bomb that led to the deaths of over 100,000 people exploded in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, artists Iri and Toshi Maruki entered the destroyed city
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Surreal Still Lifes of Objects and Their Memories
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — The concept of “improvisational painting” might evoke the idea of loose compositions with abstract shapes — Kandinsky-like squiggles and half-formed images, or a visual jazz of color and texture.
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Painting the Imagined Space Where East and West Harmonize
Salman Toor’s insular scenes of life in Pakistan have vanished.
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Jeremy Deller's Indelibly British Brand of Anti-Capitalist Pop
MEXICO CITY — Although presented as a series of discrete events across time, history is written every day through humanity’s incessant production of time-sensitive ephemera that define the aesthetics, sounds, and languages of our epoch.
Performance
Performa 15: Rewarding Musical Turns, and Unused Real Estate
In the final phase of Performa 15, which ended on November 22, a couple of performances turned profitably to music, creating synergies with standardized hand gestures in one case and the dynamics of theater lighting in the other.
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Mary Heilmann Invites Us to Join Her in Arcadia
When I first wrote about Mary Heilmann for Artforum (January 1987), one thing I had in mind was the strong impression that her first great painting, “Save the Last Dance for Me” (1979), had made on me some years earlier, when I saw it at the Holly Solomon Gallery.
Music
Grimes, Self-Conscious Art Angel
Put on the new Grimes album and prepare for 50 minutes of squeal.
Books
Surround Sound: The Sonic Environments of Jacob Kirkegaard's ‘Earside Out’
This past spring, the Danish Museet for Samtids Kunst acknowledged the hard-won singularity of countryman Jacob Kirkegaard by granting him his first solo exhibition, Earside Out.
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What I Think I See in the Paintings of Jan Baltzell
PHILADELPHIA — Most of Jan Baltzell’s recent paintings, currently on view at the Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, are on Mylar. DuPont, in the 1950s, was an early developer of Mylar, which is made of stretched polyester.
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A Fragmented City Characterized by Fences, Doors, and Distance
LOS ANGELES — So much of Los Angeles geography is characterized by fences, doors, and distance, to keep some of us in and others out.
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Tibet's Secret Temple: The Long-Hidden Tantric Murals of Lukhang Palace
On an island in a pond behind the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet sits the Lukhang Temple, or "Temple to the Serpent Spirits," a secret meditation space created by the Dalai Lama in the 17th century.